Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
2 While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
3 While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
4 While the car is being repaired or serviced we ignore any limitations as to driving or use as shown in the policy schedule .
5 Or did he have another woman with him ?
6 Did he enjoy being a temporarily anonymous spectacle , or did he believe these seamstresses and pipe fitters knew who he was ?
7 Or did it make any difference either way ?
8 Did this modernism , in Jürgen Habermas 's terms , deepen and extend the rationalist Enlightenment project , or did it undermine that project ?
9 Were they completely off the cuff or did you have some idea of what you were going to do ?
10 Recently , Sir John Thomas 's group from the Royal Institution , London , has used an instrumental arrangement at Daresbury that allowed them to capture both types of information on the same sample while it was actually undergoing a chemical change .
11 In the years that followed I made many flights with those ‘ intrepid bush pilots ’ and watched the development of aviation in Canada .
12 More important to me was the need to obey this instinct that warned me to put some distance between us . ’
13 Or was it a surgical implant that enabled him to endure more terror than ordinary men , a supplementary hypothalamus ?
14 It was the positive response to his first efforts that persuaded him to publish another Mahler facsimile .
15 Nor did we make much effort to match the potent appeal of Tory policies on privatisation and council house sales .
16 Nor did we make much fuss over presents .
17 Nor did they see any future in piecemeal political reform of the autocracy .
18 Briggs and Nebes ( 1976 ) found no effect of familial handedness but nor did they find any effect of handedness per se .
19 Nor did they have any preconceptions about his personality or politics .
20 She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background .
21 She had not sat down to breakfast , preferring to eat a handful of dry Puffkins while she sought her shoes , nor did she utter any words of affectionate farewell , not being one for dissimulation .
22 Nor did she have much confidence in many of the nannies who now worked at Park House .
23 Jones ' record of that meeting notes that ‘ None of these dates were questioned or challenged by Fleischmann and Pons or anyone present , nor did anyone raise any questions about the proposal-review process .
24 Spemann and Mangold 's discovery of the organizer did not come as a surprise to Spemann , nor did it involve any element of luck .
25 The Parliament could not sack individual Commissioners , or force amendments on legislation , nor did it develop much influence over budgetary matters until the 1970s .
26 He saw no evidence that the German Socialists were either willing or able to restrain Prussian ambitions , nor did he place any faith in bourgeois internationalism .
27 But Kuzmitch alleged that Blake told him nothing about his work for MI6 nor did he give any indication that he was ardently pro-Communist .
28 The stark desire in his face threatened to take what strength she had left , nor did he make any attempt to hide the blatant response of his body to that consuming , passionate kiss , continuing to hold her so tightly that she could feel him with every part of her being , could still taste him inside her mouth .
29 Nor did he see much hope in the extension of parliamentary redress : ‘ any man who will look plain facts in the face will see in a moment that ministerial liability to the censure not in fact by Parliament , nor even by the House of Commons , but by the party majority who keep the Government in office , is a very feeble guarantee indeed against action which evades the authority of the law courts . ’
30 Nor did he see another consequence , as his nephew Mauss confessed , shortly before going mad : ‘ how large modern societies which have more or less emerged from the Middle Ages in other respects , could be hypnotized as aborigines are by their dances and set in motion like a child 's carousel .
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